Drawing or sensation of shortening of tendons. It is a long-acting
remedy.

Mind

: There are few
reliable mental symptoms known. Anxiety, fretfulness and antipathy to certain persons.
Neuralgic and, rheumatic pains in the head. Tearing pains in the head.

Head

: Stitching and
tearing in the temples. Itching of the scalp and other parts. Rash all over body like
measles.

Eyes

: It cures
capsular cataract, when the symptoms agree. Yellow spots before the eyes. Burning of the
lids and balls in twilight or dim light. Mist before the eyes in a bright light.

Ears

: Burning of the
ears when walking in cold air. Difficult hearing. Catarrh of right ear, throat and larynx.

Nose and coryza

: Much
sneezing, watery burning discharge, yet stoppage of nose. Coryza with burning in larynx. It
has been used extensively in traditional medicine for coryza. Some sore throat and
inflammation of the larynx.

For these troubles in olden times the large chunk of sal ammoniac was
produced, a few crystals shaved off with a common jack knife into a glass of water. All got
the same thing, regardless of symptoms.

Some were cured promptly of these bad colds, with or without fever. It is
now an overlooked remedy. Its symptoms should be carefully studied.

Face

: With many of its
complaints there is much pallor of the face. Tearing in the bones of the face. Swelling of
the submaxillary and parotid glands with stitching pains.

Mouth

: Burning and
excoriation of mouth and lips, like Am.
c. Tongue swollen. It is a very useful
remedy for nondescript sore throat; but especially useful where there is marked burning and
much viscid mucus, pulsating in the neck and glands of neck, great swelling, pale face,
stitching in the throat, great pain on swallowing, with or without thirst.

Stomach

: Eructations
of food as eaten, and vomiting. Sensation of hunger with fullness, which is a flatulent
state. Empty feeling, gnawing in the stomach and spleen. Burning, stitching, tearing pains
in the abdomen.

Abdomen

: Distension
from flatus. Much grumbling in the bowels. Much pain in inguinal region. Pain in abdomen and
back during menses. The abdomen is fat, relaxed and heavy, and the lower limbs are lean.

Rectum and anus

:
Excoriation and burning of the rectum and anus during and long after stool. Stitching,
tearing pains in the perineum. Hard, crumbling stool, most difficult to expel; must use the
abdominal muscles.

All the salts of ammonia, like this one, have painful hemorrhoids. It
cures diarrhea when the stools are like scrapings, bloody and watery; also green slimy
stools in the morning. Diarrhea and vomiting during menses, like

Am. c. It has
cured enlarged prostate, also enlarged uterus.

Female

: Menses too
soon each month, with pain in back and abdomen. The flow is black and clotted, much like Am. c. During menses there is often haemorrhage from the bowels or rectum with
cholera-like symptoms.

Copious uterine haemorrhage. Copious white painless leucorrhoea. With all
the abdominal and menstrual symptoms there is copious flatus, with rumbling and colic.

These symptoms especially in pale, sickly, feeble women.

Chest and lungs

: In
catarrhal troubles that extend into the larynx and bronchial tubes, with stitching, tearing,
burning.

Hoarseness and loss of voice, with burning in the larynx. Constantly
scraping white mucus from the larynx. Difficult breathing when using the arms or from manual
labor. Weight on the chest in open or cold air. Dry cough from constant tickling in the
larynx. Daily recurring suffocating cough. In weakly people going toward phthisis, with
daily dry cough and fast pulse.

Back and limbs

:
Violent backache at waist line, worse at night. Coldness between the shoulders.

Stitching, drawing, tearing in limbs. Drawing in the limbs. Tension in
the muscles and tendons of the lower limbs.

Tension in posterior part of thighs when walking. Cold feet at night in
bed. Copious night sweats latter part of night. Flushes of heat and fever.

If the reader will take up the provings and study them carefully he
should be able to use this remedy in the direction pointed out, and most likely would see
uses not mentioned.